Author: Rolando Merino
Title: The Counting Story
Illustrator: Rolando Merino
Publisher: Children's Storybooks Online
Year: 1998-2003
Genre: Counting Book
Format: E Book
Reading level: Early
Interest level: Pre-K & Early elementary
Topics: Rabbits, numbers, counting
Summary: This online children's book is all about bunnies. This is a counting book. The book goes through numbers one through eleven. Each page in the book has its own number. The number on the pages is how many bunnies are on the page. For example, page one has one bunny and the one bunny is waving hello. The bunnies do different actions on each page. The story is animated with movements. Since this is an online book, animations can be made and it does add some character to the story.
Extension Activity: Have children create bunny ears using head bands and construction paper. The bunny ears would already be cut out of the construction paper. The kids would need to glue the bunny ears onto the head band. After kids created the bunny ears, the class would be re-read the book and kids would act out the story as teacher reads it. This way kids can understand the concept of counting and numbers by watching the story, as well as participating.
